one more question
when jack kate and charlie went to get the pilot, was everyone who was in the front in their seats? it seemed like there were a lot of empty seats there and more seats than bodies which normally isnt the case as there should be equal bodies and seats.
i have to watch the pilot again.

I'm no physicist, but I believe that in order for the front of the plane to be gaining speed, it would have to be going down nose-first. I reviewed some screen caps from ep. 1 and it is nose-up in the trees. It almost looks as if it were plopped down in the jungle. So I stand by my belief that if people could survive part of the plane being plopped into the ocean and part onto the beach, they should be able to survive being plopped into the jungle. The photos are so dark, I can't see if there are any passengers in the front section, save 1 dead man. Perhaps my mind filled in those seats with dead bodies. LOSTON..., Your point about the empty seats is a good one. I don't have the DVD, so please let us know what you see.

I will go one further than that and say that nobody in the front of the plane was meant to survive. That includes Shannon and Boone, who were supposed to have first class tickets, but were bumped down to business. I mentioned this earlier in the thread: How did Charlie survive when he was in the front of the plane doing his drugs and then only made it slightly past first class when looking for a seat. It look to me like everyone in the vicinity of where he strapped himself in, died. And how did Cindy make it all the way back to the tail before it was ripped off??? She was up front trying to get Charlie out of the bathroom. They (Bernard too) were meant to survive regardless of where they were at the time of the crash.

Woah, this is mind blowing. This would also mean the pilot was meant to survive - for a few minutes, at least.

I looked at screencaps and only saw one shot with a person strapped in a seat, dead. But all the other shots were closeups of Kate, Charlie and Jack.

just watched the pilot again.
there were like 3 dead people there or so. no one else.
maybe they survived and then taken by the others like most of taillies. or maybe taken by the smoke. you know i was thinking about the smoke... does smoke really leave a shadow?

doubt anyone says anything to one another...well thats whats being shown to us. these group of people like to keep secrets from one another. (hatch, speaking english, past crimes/history, physical ability).

nobody mentioned all those voices they heard in the jungle (sawyer, the tailies when AL shot shannon). or are we to assume they did mention it to one another and they'll deal with it later.

also want to know if sayid told michael about the walt sighting (his and shannon's which led to her death...or is he still grieving about that and haven't mentioned it to anyone).

did kate and sawyer mention to anyone else about the horse sighting.

and what was mentioned recently, did anyone tell jack about the drugs, he might want some for medicinal purposes.

and yeah, wonder if eko will mention anything to locke since it looks like they're bonding somewhat. these 2 are the same yet so different in many ways. i doubt charlie will mention it cause he just got rejected by claire.

"Lost," Disney's TV drama about a plane crash on a remote island, is proving to be an unusually universal hit as its confounding plot sucks in global viewers from Laos to Latvia.

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"Lost" is aired in the UK on government-owned broadcaster Channel 4, which has been at the center of a dispute between broadcasters and producers about who will control new media rights for services like TV downloads and video-on-demand.

I'm no physicist, but I believe that in order for the front of the plane to be gaining speed, it would have to be going down nose-first. I reviewed some screen caps from ep. 1 and it is nose-up in the trees.

Yes, it eventually came to rest nose-up. But I doubt it just drifted gently down from the heavens that way. There was probably a fair amount of skidding, bouncing, rolling, etc. first.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko) is scheduled to be on Jimmy Kimmel next Wednesday. Although Kimmel has no idea how to pronounce his name. For that matter, neither do I.